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MO SB1038

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/9/2016

Primary Sponsor

Jamilah Nasheed

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Origin

Senate

2016 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Changes compensation for wrongfully convicted individuals from $50 per day of incarceration to $100,000 per year for those sentenced to death and $50,000 per year for all other individuals

  • Makes restitution mandatory ("shall receive") rather than discretionary ("may receive") for those proven actually innocent through DNA evidence

  • Removes the previous $36,500 annual cap on restitution payments to exonerated individuals

  • Applies only to felony convictions where actual innocence was established solely through DNA profiling analysis

  • Recipients of restitution are prohibited from seeking additional civil redress from the state, and restitution rights cannot be transferred or inherited

Legislative Description

Changes the amount of restitution paid to an individual wrongfully convicted

Last Action

Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

2/22/2016

Committee Referrals

Judiciary And Civil And Criminal Jurisprudence2/22/2016

Full Bill Text

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